From the Facebook page of St. Matthew's Anglican Catholic Church in Newport Beach, CA:
Welcome Bp. Grote
The Rt. Rev'd Royal Grote, Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, will be visiting St. Matthew's today, January 24th. He will preach at the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services.
We have been developing a cordial ecumenical relationship with the REC. Bishop Grote attended the ACC Provincial Synod in Athens, Georgia last October. Bishop Scarlett and Fr. Blake are planning to attend Bishop Grote's diocesan synod in Texas in February. We are grateful for this growing relationship, and we welcome Bishop Grote to St. Matthew's Church.
For more information about the REC, click here: http://www.recus.org/.
I met in late July 2015 with +Stephen Scarlett, who is the Ordinary of the ACC's Diocese of the Holy Trinity and rector of St. Matthew's. He had recently attended the International Catholic Congress of Anglicans and spoke very highly of REC Bishop Ray Sutton, whom he met there, and of the REC in general. I am pleasantly surprised to see representatives of each church attending each other's synods, and I can't help wondering what all this may augur. I'm thinking it can only be good.